the page.” He nodded.
I did so, and then lost my ability to breathe.
The words: Will you marry me, Addison? were written in a beautiful typed script on the very next page.
“You’re not only moving in Addy…you’re also never leaving my side. I’m keeping you forever, baby. I love you. I want to be with you. I want to own that wild beauty of yours and see it shining in the eyes of our future children.”
Then he backed up and went down on his knee.
“No way!” I gasped hugging the book with one arm covering my shocked expression with the other. My entire body started to tremble with excitement, adrenaline, or maybe just an overabundance of love coursing through my veins.
Killian grinned and pulled a single ring from his pocket. No box, just an incredible rectangular-shaped, rather large diamond that had two sideways triangles hugging the long edges of the diamond. It was platinum gold in color and the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. Not too ostentatious but it definitely made a statement, and that statement was clear. I’m claiming this woman with a badass diamond that I want everyone to see.
“Yes, yes, yes!” I hopped up and down.
“Addy, I haven’t asked you yet.” He chuckled. “First you think we’re not shacked up and I have to ask you to move in ‘officially.’” He made quote marks with his first and middle finger. “Then you say yes to a proposal I haven’t even gotten out!” He shook his head.
I waved at my heated face, set the book on the shelf, and came back to stand in front of him, flattening my simple sundress. “Okay. Sorry, honey. Go ahead. Ask away.”
He grinned and laughed, the most beautiful sound in the entire world.
My heart beat out of my chest as I stared into the warm brown eyes I would see every day when I woke. The last lips that I would kiss romantically. The only man from here on out that I would ever take inside my body.
Killian Fitzpatrick.
The man for me.
“Addison Michaels-Kerrighan, would you do me the privilege, the honor, of becoming my wife?”
I couldn’t help but clap my hands and jump up and down again. “Yes, yes, yes,” I repeated in a high voice reminisce of a girly shriek.
He stood up. “Kiss me, babe!” He growled and I went into those muscular, safe arms as fast as I could and plastered my lips to his.
The room roared with applause. Our family laughing and hooting and whistling as we sealed our fate together forevermore.
Tabby would have been so pleased.
Killian let me go, then kissed my nose, my cheeks, my eyes, and landed another hard one to my lips before turning around. “She said yes!” He roared like a gladiator who’d just won a battle.
I looped my arms around him and cuddled into his side staring at my family. “I’m getting married too!”
Simone’s hands went into the air. “Double wedding!” she screamed.
I shook my head. “No way. Let’s do something swanky and tropical like Cannes, France!” I breathed, loving the idea of something European inspired. I adore Europe and couldn’t wait to see it with my man.
“Now that idea I could get behind. Fun in the sun. Yes ma’am.” Blessing approached with her arms out. “So happy for you, sister.” She hugged me and kept me in her arms as she stared Killian down. “You don’t treat her right, you have me to deal with. And I’ve got connections,” she warned, and then winked.
Killian held up his hands. “Message received.”
“Mmm hmmm, I know that’s right.” She nodded, and then kissed my cheek. “I’ll get started on sketches for your dress once you decide what the location and timeframe will be.”
“Thanks, Blessing.”
One by one we were congratulated by our friends and family. The pizza arrived and it turned into an all-night party. The shot glasses came out and more food was ordered and delivered from a local place several hours after the pizza had been decimated.
By two in the morning, we were saying goodbye to the last of our guests. Killian shut down the house and brought me hand-in-hand up to our bedroom.
He stripped me of my sundress and made love to me until he passed out.
I snuggled against his broad chest staring at my ring in the moonlight streaking in. From the start of my life until I was led up the stairs of Kerrighan House, I’d been alone. Now I had sisters I adored, men I could now call great friends,